If you’re like many Americans, each week before going shopping you have had the experience of opening the pantry or the refrigerator — which is practically full — and exclaiming that there is nothing to eat.

Most of this is because we have various snack items, leftovers or perishable items that didn’t get eaten before their expiration date. Thus, we clean out the fridge and pantry before heading to the store to restock them.

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A cornucopia of thoughts and observations on the sports world while wondering if there’s any hope of our Yankees making it to the World Series:

• Here it is, barely June, and already the preseason football publications are reaching the newsstands.

I thought I was seeing things the other day when I was browsing through the sports magazine section of Books-a-Million and there, right in front me, stared the front cover of the 2012 Lindy’s Southeastern Conference football magazine.

When most of us think about heart health and warning signs of heart trouble, we usually focus on symptoms involving the chest, not the legs. However, chronic leg pain may signal peripheral artery disease, a condition that shares a common cause with heart disease: hardening of the arteries.